History of the Sage and Slocum families of England and America, including the allied families of Montague, Wanton, Brown, Josselyn, Standish, Doty, Carver, Jermain or Germain, Pierson, HowellHonRussell Sage and Margaret Olivia (Slocum) SageThe Slocum families showing three lines of descent from the signers of the Mayflower compact . wife, Anne Wingfield, down to the eighteenth century. The following are the armorial bearings of theDuxbury family: Arms—Azure, three standishes —A cock —Constant en tout. Seat—Duxbury Park, Lancashire, and Cocken Hall,Durham. A well known a
History of the Sage and Slocum families of England and America, including the allied families of Montague, Wanton, Brown, Josselyn, Standish, Doty, Carver, Jermain or Germain, Pierson, HowellHonRussell Sage and Margaret Olivia (Slocum) SageThe Slocum families showing three lines of descent from the signers of the Mayflower compact . wife, Anne Wingfield, down to the eighteenth century. The following are the armorial bearings of theDuxbury family: Arms—Azure, three standishes —A cock —Constant en tout. Seat—Duxbury Park, Lancashire, and Cocken Hall,Durham. A well known authority (Vermont) says: Capt. MilesStandish descended from Thurston de Standish. The branchof Duxbury, county Lancaster, from which the emigrantdescended, originated w^ith Hugh Standish (temp. Edward L), and adopted the reformedreligion. The records of the parish of Charley, with w^hich the family estate is connected,w^ere examined some years since by the agents of the American Standishes, and it issaid that these records were easily deciphered, with the exception of the years 1584and 1585, the very dates about which Capt. Myles Standish is supposed to have beenbom; the parchment-leaf which contained the register of both of these years beingw^holly illegible, and showing evident traces of having been tampered aniJi^J). THE LINE OF CAPT. MYLES STANDISH OF THE PLYMOUTH COLONY SHOWING THE CONNECTION WITH THE SLOCUM FAMILY Capt. Myles Standish w^as bom, as is supposed, about his youth up. A stouter champion never handled since we w^ere resolved of your faithful service, and your toil in war. He was a soldier 20 THE SLOCUM AND ALLIED FAMILIES OF AMERICA His first military service was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from whom hereceived a commission in the English army in Holland, then aiding the Dutch againstSpain. His Christian name, Myles, is an old Roman name for soldiers. He is describedas short of stature, but he certainly wa
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